The dawn of the breast pump brought many new opportunities to nursing mothers. Moms now have the ability to be away from their baby for extended periods of time while maintaining breastfeeding.

Both nursing and pumping are excellent ways to feed a baby breast milk. People should choose the feeding strategy or combination of strategies that work best for them and the infant. Breast milk is ...

Much like breastfeeding or chestfeeding, pumping milk shouldn’t hurt. The pump’s job is to gently encourage a milk letdown, then continue suctioning to collect that milk. This process shouldn’t be ...

Exclusive pumping is when you feed your baby with only pumped milk, rather than direct breastfeeding or nursing. In practice, you express (or squeeze out) milk from your breast using a pump and then ...